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Alaffia Health, which provides AI tools for health plan claims operations, raised a $55M Series B led by Transformation Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
Alaffia Health, which provides AI tools for health plan claims operations, raised a $55M Series B led by Transformation Capital  —  Agentic artificial intelligence for health plan claims operations startup Alaffia Health Inc. announced today that it has raised $55 million in new funding to accelerate growth …

KKR and Singtel agree to acquire the remaining 82% stake in data center operator STT GDC for ~$5.1B, giving the company an enterprise value of ~$10.86B (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)

Lee Ying Shan / CNBC:
KKR and Singtel agree to acquire the remaining 82% stake in data center operator STT GDC for ~$5.1B, giving the company an enterprise value of ~$10.86B  —  Private equity firm KKR and Singapore Telecommunications will acquire the remaining 82% stake in data center operator ST Telemedia Global Data Centres …

Source: Anthropic plans an employee tender offer at a $350B+ pre-money valuation, the same valuation discussed in the company's ongoing $20B fundraising (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Source: Anthropic plans an employee tender offer at a $350B+ pre-money valuation, the same valuation discussed in the company's ongoing $20B fundraising  —  Anthropic is working on a deal to let some employees sell shares in the company at a valuation of at least $350 billion …

Sources: US-based Arcee AI is pitching investors on a $200M+ funding round valuing it at over $1B, as it plans to train an open-weight model with 1T+ parameters (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Anna Tong / Forbes:
Sources: US-based Arcee AI is pitching investors on a $200M+ funding round valuing it at over $1B, as it plans to train an open-weight model with 1T+ parameters  —  The American startup is pitching investors on a $1 billion+ valuation to train a model over a trillion parameters …

Salesforce's Tableau chief, Ryan Aytay, leaves after 19 years at the company, just two months after Slack CEO Denise Dresser left for OpenAI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Salesforce's Tableau chief, Ryan Aytay, leaves after 19 years at the company, just two months after Slack CEO Denise Dresser left for OpenAI  —  The chief of Salesforce Inc.'s data visualization unit, Tableau, has left the company, raising some concerns on Wall Street about executive churn at the software maker.